The Sun. — London, England, 1808-05-14 00:00:00

BAVONitIE, APRIL 23...:re3terridy, at seven in die evening, her Majesty the EinpreBs arrived here. , : — The Administration, the Guard of Honour, and' several r , ?!gitnettis of cavalry, went to meet her.— The whole of . the garrison was :under arms, and tooc.l in two long rows in the streets. T . he canner, of the citadel Was discharged, and the town-was iitu urinated. :Their Majesties ,alighted at the Castle of Mcrae, where the ErnperOr takes up' his residence. Te-day she received a vist.' from the Prince of the ASTVEIAS. • The day before yesterday the Prince De LA PAZ anived here. 'He dwells in a castle near . the town. Tormerrow the King-and Queen of SPAIN are ex; yetied. • • - nets, ram 28.---From Algiers the following official Report has been received The measures puraned by the Dey of ALGIERS towards the Europeans become every •day more vio lent. The Dey having scarcely,She Government in his hands, not being assured of the fidelity of his troops, and even the confirmation of fns office from the Grand . Signior, his Sovereign, not'beingarriyed;• an l b6ng involved in a bloody war with' the Dey of TuN•7s, .thoUght he might, in. spite of the difficulties: of his situation, levy tribute upon all nations, " -On tht 2;.?d instant, he made a deMand of the Swe'dish, - Danish,. and Dutch Consuls, that they shmald bring him their presents; and he required of the Consul of America t 8,000 double piastres, in order - to indemnify him for the loss of nine Algerines taken in au American vessel. The Consul pretended that the crew of the vessel had thrown the men over tward, as they were on the point of being boarded by One of his criiizers " The C."'onSul of Sweden immediately agreed to the .present. " On the 23d, the three Consuls of Denmark, ' Holland, and America were summoned to the Pa lace. - The Consul 'of Holland said, he expected in struElions from . his Government,' and that he could 4ot, till he received those instruttions, make any present. On this the Dey caused it to be intimated to him, that unless he instantly, on the arrival of his Messenger, t..ceiveci his present, he should put his children into irons 'and send them to labour. The .cntisul of America had not yet received official -tidings of the fact of whikb the Dey had complained, aild thought that he could not, with()nt the order of his Govern incur,. pay , the 18,000 The .fey "answered him, that • unless be should pay the sum within*fourdays, he should cast him in iron 3, or he must- deliver to hith nine Americans, whom be would hang up at the gate of 133b . A40u - W. !.! •M. Uhrucit, Consul .ot • Denmark,..making a representation of the state of his country, said, that the vessel which cbtitained his presents had been seized by the English, and confiscated, and that the . English Agent at Algiers hinisell would testify this : the Consul solicited time- of the Government bplt the Dey. payinl no resped• to the character of an Agent, speaking, in the name of -his master,' caused him him to be seized by the Officers of, Justice in the roldsrof. the Palace, and taken to prison instantly, amidst the shouts of a bat borous populace. • , " Those who, could enter•lnto this horrid prison saw this worthy man among the slaver, in his official dress, and loaded with a chain of sixty pounds weight,. which M. IJLatcts bete with fortitude and courage: he merely recernmended 7 tO his friadds the care of his wife and five children. At length the „.. . Dey resolved, on - the earnest entreaties - of all the • European Consuls, to set the Danish Consul at li berty; • and while he was occupied working witli all the slaves, they cantle and took off his chain. What security it(there against the renewal of these ails of violence ? . ” All the slaves here are treated with the most, horrid cruelty; 450 Portnguese are shut up hi prison, The Court of Lisbon delayed sending the tribute. The Government has not sent them, any relief; and they are inextrerne wretchedness. • The Officers, as• wet,' as sailers, are condemned to labour, and loaded' with ignominy/ . , °r ,t number of Neapolitans, also slaves, are not in •a. less pitiable situation ; and the. Dey, who • expeas to . conquer' Tunis in the first campaign, hopes to make q boOty of 3000 more European -, slaft. , s, whose ransom he will fix very high, Since he has been forced to give - op- all the slaves who were subjeas of the Emperor NApoix.arl it seems that lie is resolved to make his system of robbery press. harder on the other foreigners:" foreign European Consuls have made their Kmenstrancea to the Dey of Ault Las, the Consul. General of France being the Speaker,. with so much effe.a, that the Danish Consul has beefs set at liberty. MAILS. Aga tvt.o— r Cottenburgh, r.Lecwardlsland, 2 Istaterford Dug-4 Dublin, i Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS Tills DAY AT TWIU4V O'CLOCK. GS, • • - • Consols T E 4 SU N. s.i.s.s4 Ruts ili,tclut t4tsub4 kunx6i L NDQ N, ZATURD4Y, MAY 14, 180 C. ACCOUNT 3 reached the Admiralty this morning, which state the capture of Deseada, an Island near Guadaloupe, by Admiral COCHItANC4 C11.314er1. Some of our Contemporaries have expressed doubts with regard to the accuracy of the state ment we laid'ibefore' our Readers t 3 few days ago, ' respecting the acknowledgment of FganjtbrAtsp by tvottAPARTE. We are enabled, however, to state, upon undoubted authority, tlitt our account was per feCtly correct A Treaty stag bgen eanclpdcd be tween Feantismsan and ntIONAPARTE; by which the latter acknowledgc3 the further King of Spain and, the Indlea, - The Adminiitratipo of Portugal is loon to ItirtnnlANr; during fife LC , join, the Confederation of the Rhino, and furnish a, efintingent of 60,000 men. A Port in Spanish south Arnnerie'a to 'be coded to Friine&. •''There is an 1 rtitht, respe4ing the Plttscz uty. P44,9e, but we do 1 knovv, the particulars, of it, except that 14' was to be sent to France ; he was, however, at Aranjuez as late as the 17th in prison, and heavily fettered. The late Queen of Spain is, we under stand, in a state bordering upon -insanity : the loss of a throne is not her only rnisfortnhe. THIS. morning a. Gottenbursh Mail arrived: . It appears that the Swedes haVe met with some slight checks Norway. We also learn that the. Invasion of the ISland of Gothland was a, mere. pre. &tory Attack of the I:tussians, .who re-embarked as soon as they obtained some booty,. There were no French Troops with them ; they seem to hale an invincible aversion to Islands—they will not even trust themselves in Zealand. Last night we received foreign, Papers down to the loth instant, from which we have extraeted the most matecial parts of their contents. The articlecfrom the Moniteur, dated May 4th, 'are par ticularly interesting, relative to Spain,• and tend to throw more light on the, melancholy state of that Country. By. the Letter Of the lite KING of SPAIN, it is evident that he was induced to resign his Crowit by the fear of death; and our Readers may remember that the present KING of SPAIN, in an account of the progress of the Revolution, published' by himielf, stated, that he had " judged it necessary, for the welfare of the KingdoM, to give the Duke of INFAtitnn . o a POwer of Attorney in his own, (the King's) hand-writifig, to assume the command of the Troops in New Cas tile, in case of ‘he decease of his Royal Father."-- This is an ominous hint of what the late King had too much reason to apprehend, as he had also, cording to his own letter, long been sensible of his Son's eaget: desire to reign. It has been thought surOsing that the French Papers should have been permitted to publish these accounts, as BUONAPARTE, seems inclined to favour the new Monarch of Spain; but as he is now the arbiter of the fate of that Country, and can have no attachment to either party, it iS his business to bring.disgrace upon that he may dispose of the Kingdom as he pleases; and by showing that there is inaheeility on one side, and Villainyon the other, he opens. the way for some mi, nion of his own, The feelings of the people in Spain seem to be patriotic and resolkite, but, what Can they finally do against the subtlety of the French Rnler, and the powerful army which he,, has artfully contrived to get into the Kingdom, and is daily rein forcing ? THE CIiANCELLOA of the IikCiIEQUER yesterday brought forard his Pian for enabling the Holders of Three per Cent. Stock to convert it' into Annui ties, upon-an estimated scale of purchase. For the details of this measure we must refer our Readers to the very able Speech of the 'Citsticat.t.ott of the ExceEe.una. The only ground of objeaion to this I Plan which the Opposition have yet been able to dis cover-is, that it will be injurious to posterity, by in diicing persons possessed of property, to sacri fice the ftiture expe6tations of their families, to their own immediate comforts, 'by purchasing Annuities ,for their ' own lives. This is an oh, lea ion which we do not thi4 will be pressed very seriously, because those who wish to sink their money in Annuities have always bad ample means of doing so. The (+Tea of this measure, therefore, will not be_ to augment the number of Aenuitants, but to induce them to take the Security of Goverunient rather than that of individuals: The sentiments of the Opposition, with regard to the degree of attention which ought to be paid to the Interests of Posterity, .4pear to bare recently undergone a total change ! We remember when Mr. PITT proposed to raise as large a portion of the Supplies within the year as possible, the Op , position in general preferred the system of Loans, and contended vehemently that posterity shoilld bear a share of the burthens as well as the present genera tion : but now their language is 'completely alter- . ed, and ,they are unwilling to suffer a, man to lay out the fruits of his own .industiy, to were , to himself the comforts of life in his old age, lest he should thereby injure the interests' of posterity. This extrsordinary w change of scuti_ ! ! . Ment and pf language we can only attribute to the, perverse disapProbation of the, principles and con duet- of. the. Gentlemen in Opposition; which the present generation has upon all occasions maul fasted : like unsuccessful Authors, therefore, they Are determined to make their appeal to posterity; and, we think, there is much good sense in this ap peal, fer if they wish or expetit that their condud khould meet with approbation, they are right in re ferring it to the judgment 'of those who cannot be witnesses of its absurdity. esterday morning their MAJUSTIPS and the Panscassis left . town tor Windsor, previous to which the Prince Of WA ES, Pukes of YORK, Kr.NT,' and CAMBIIIIIE ) paid their respects. • The Tortola Mail, we are sorry to fidd,.htingl an account that Port d'EspAgne, in the Island Of dpd, hai t;ethtconstpted by Are: The olive thi dre;!(.1161 diaaster bastnot transpircd. GOTTZNBURGH 111,171,. GOTTENBURGH, MAY 6. 7 -The accounts by tlie post from Calmar - and Carlscrona on the 2d, respefit ing the landing of the French and Russians in the Island ofGothland, appear to have been exaggerated. By the last letters from thence we fearn;that, in stead of 10,000 men, 3000 only were landed on' the Island, who were all Russians. They sailed frau Liebau on the 21st of - April, in nine ships ;—of the truth of ,this a Captain from Liebau has made oath before the GovernMent of Stockholm. This morn ing arrived the Eztoya/us Frigate, Honourable Cap tain DUNDAS, having on bnard his Royal Highness the Duke D'Awoour.Ema and Suite. Thbre is no thing today from Norway. • A report was current yesterday, that a, consider Ale body of Swedes, 500, had been surrounded and taken . prisoners by 3000 Norwegians; but this 1s not yet confirmed. MAY 7.—N Messenger, who has just arrived from Stockhohn, brings the intelligence, that the Russians have altrady retired from the Island of Gotilland, after plundering it, and, as the Island was rich, taking away a considerable booty. A Fleet of seven Transports, with arms and act have arrii7ed here from Plymouth, bound for Gefle. SrocKttome, MAY 2.—By a report made by Lord Lieutenant KLINT, on the 23d of last month, his Royal Majesty was informed that, on the preceding day, the Russians made good a landing on the south east coast of Gothland, in the parish of Grotting burgh. Their strength is estimated at about 2000. According to intelligence received from Oland, that Island was taken possession of a month ago by some Russian troops,. who were, however, soon after recalled in the greatest hUrry ; - but they have nOw.landed there a second time. Reports are cur.; rent in that Island, uncontradieied by the Russian Officers, that their army in .Fit4and has sustained a very considerable loss in an attack made on the Fortress of Sweaburgh.—(Stockholin Gazette,May 2.) SrOCKHOL.M. 29.---His Majesty received yesterday from General Baron ARMFELDT, the fol lowing Report, dated April 23, 1808: _ _ _ a. By my last Report informed yoUr Majesty that f had passed the mountains,Jand rendered my self master of the passes between KonigsWinger and Orie Bridge. The Eneiny, who made no con siderable resistance in the mountains ) except at Leersum, seem to have recovered the first im pression made by my operations in Norway, and begin to attack my Troops as soon as they make their, appearance., Count MoKNA, of the Lire Guards, was attacked near Taverna, and owiu to the Enemy's vast superiority in number, surrounded and taken prisOner, , with about . 60 rank and file, and some Officers. Although , we have sustained this loss, and besides lost about go men killed and wounded, yet the state of affairs in this country, in a general point of view, remain unaltered. " Head-quartetis, Pratottm,April .- 23, 1808; • " G. M. AttraFaLtir, "Commander-in-Chief' of the Western Army." SrocKnot.m, Anatt, 30,—Lettets. from Rome state, several Englishmen, who resided in that City, hatie been arrested and lodged in the Castle of St. ,A9gelo.. An Ameriein, who'by mistake had been &intined-With them, was . soon alier set at liberty. • Tuscany is now divided into three departments, namely, Florence, Siena, and Leghorn, which are .divided into Prefeianres. The Privy Coun., cil is abolished, with all other public boards of the former Government, so that no traces are left of the ancient regi;ocri.—(StockhattoCiaiette, Apri43o,) GOTTENBURGII, MAT 2.—Last Thursday the English Frigates Daphne and Tart4' rus . brought into Rifyiefiard ten Danish Prizes, nine of which were laden with flour and provisions, and one. in. ballast, which were cut out of Fladstrand by five armed Boats ,under the command of Lieut. ELLIOTT, no t_ withstanding a heavy 43 from the batteries on Shore - , with no other loss than haring five - men, slightly wounded. Only one old man was found on board the Danish Vessels, all the rest of the crews having got on shore and made their escape. The same day two Danish Ships, in ballast, were brought in, prizes to the English Ships of War the geately and 4Vassau. Music.--The Concerts under the direction of Mrs. BILLiNGTON, BRABANT, and NALIn ' com menced last night at WlLLis's Rooms,' and their united exertions, with those of Rovzomo, SisoNt, VAUGHAN, and BeLLANY, afforded a 'high treat to' the audience. The' Band was led by Waicnsitt.t., and the orchestra was amply supplied with in. strnmental Performers of well-known talents. TBRATRR.—The annual Concert for the benefit of Messrs. C. and W. KKYVETT, took place in the treat BOOTH at this Theatre last night, and the respea itywhich*the talent and private worth of the Family are held, was visible in 4 *very numerous and clegant audience among whom were the kes of CUMnBRLAND, Syssei, and CAMBRIDGS. CRAMER led the Bind. Mrs. 13ii.LINGTON SLITT4 two airs, and then returned to tier own Concert. Nothing oatild be .tnore charming than her . '' - Street Bird.' f Aattisoig, the "KNYVli'rpi, BET.I.AbIY, Mrs. VAuGIIAN, Madame BIANCHI, Lsi Tli , 644-e, iiett. a nd jtm. rill ifel - uitted themselves very ably. SLverill o f pieces wtire encored, and tho whole Wa: moth puited, . NAVAL , NEWS. PLYMOUTH, MAX 'Q.—Arrived L'Annt.: French Schooner, laden with wine and-rosin, from lioy r;! deaux, bound to Quimper : one of her crew (which consisted of the Master :and five Inert), a Irossian, soon atter the Vessel sailed from Bourdeaux, knocted down the Master, and drove the four Frenchmen below, whom he battened down, and-stood to sea, in order to fall in with some "English Cruiser, and soon discovered the Amethyst Frigate, Capt. Sav-, MUM, in ,the offing, by-which Ship she Was board• ed, and sent to this Port. Arrived the Mediator, of 50 gunsofrom the To g us, with a Fleet of light Vialnallers under convoy ; also arrived the Scorpion Sloop of War from a Cruize. The Pau . Frigate is gone out of harbour.- DEAL, MAY 13.—Arrived and §ailed for the River the Portuguese Ship. La Princessa Brazilles, Capt. JERAU, from Vera Cruz ; and FRAZER, from Jamaica. ROYAL ACADEMY. No. 35. A Portrait.—H. THOMSON. R.A. A vory pleasing Portrait of a Negro Girl, to whom the Artist has-applied the lines of Porn--"ace the poor Indian," &c. The attitude is very expressive of that simple piety which the Poet,describes. She seems indeed to pay homage to the Supreme, as she conceives him to exist in the clouds and in the wind. The Poet had spoken of his Indian as a male, but the artist perhaps considers such"simplicity of dem. Lion as more charadteristic of the other sex. He has however produced very pleasinePiaure, and en livened the scene with local embellishments, that give spirit and propriety to the whole. No. 31. Portrait of Mrs. T. Hope and Son.—M. Duaosr. The talents of this Artist 'are best exercised in small whole lengths. He possesses great mechani. cal dexterity, but he seems too ambitious of being distinguiShed for that quality. He has taken such great pains with the ornamental parts of the , Pic... ture, that the Lady and her Child seem less to have been the objets of his attention. No. 58. Portrait of Mrs. T. Hope.—M, 'A. Stilts, R.A. Wa have here another portrait of the same Lady, • and though we are aware rif the proverbial prejudice against comparative criticism, it would be affettation. to avoid it on the present occasion. Besides, Wd have in the present• instance an opportunity of iit• dulging a patriotic pride, which, we hope, is not al lied to any narrow-minded bigotry, for, we con ceive, that in comparing this work with the last we have noticed, the judgment of every man of taste will be decidedly in favour of our countryman. • As to the likeness, we are unable to decide, having ne ver seen the fair original ; but in the general coin' position, beauty .of colouring, breadth, and (1 00 contrast of light and' shade, and choice of a' cessary embellishments, Mr. Salm, in our opt' nion, has greatly the advantage. Indeed it hita been somewhat humourously said, with respeet to:P - the ornamental parts of these two Pictures, that in the first we see a room, in which Mr. Hoes has *xi. ercised his genius in the invention of Furniture, and that in the onier he has shewn his iaste for the re' mains of antiquity. • The Enemy appear to . be colleaing a great force of Gun-brigs at 'gushing, which they send up the .Scheldt as they arrive. A Flotilla of 10 Sail of this sort of craft, on P its way for that port from Flush•! ing, was lately attacked by one bf our Cruizers , which captured one of then), ,and,, sent her 04 • Thursday into Dover. The rest escaped by keeping close in shore, which they were able to do, as they only draw three feet water. The captured butt carries two g-pounders, bind one la-poundd is the . bow, is of great width, and capable of carrying great number / of men. GIBRALTAR, APRIL s7.—Last night the Phcge frigate, UswA.l43, arrived from Lord LINGWOOD'S, Flea,-'which the Plicebe left, off Ali" norca, twelve,days ago. By the Plicae we learn , that the Rochefort anu .L'oulti Squadrons, atter ing etftoted the objet of their e,s,,,e‘iiiion, lit 13 . 0( 1, iir twelve thousand 'men at Cain and the.Scvell islands, had, after visiting Minorca, returned to Toulon.--The Spanish Squadron at MY i no rca declined going to 'I2OtIIOIT along with the French, and they were at anchor in the harbour of Mahon when the Phcebe left Minorca. Lord . Cota.iNdwooo intended) returning to Sicily again, with the Fleet under l?ifi command. The Eleara Sloop of War. had boo lost oft Sicily ; the crew saved. The (7'./assi"Peri C a Vtain SEARL4, this morning brought in two Spanish prizes hi , ten with Indigo and Cochineal, bound from Vera Cilaz to U,4.114, supposed to be worth 30,0001. also two Spanish Gull-boats, taken off Cadiz. APRIL 29.—Yesterday afternoon ithe PiVentrare: Frigate, -and the convoy from England or .fifty . Saii,: arrived here. The Duke of-6uotANs.landed Irons the Pelontuire, and was received with a - royal salute frotn the Garrison and Shipping. • Pis 'Majesty's Ship Franchise, with part of the Fleet under her convoy for the \Veit Indies, which' sailed' from Portsmouth on 21st February, arrived' at Barbadoes on 31st March. The Ships fingdalen; London, Jupiter, Trafalgar, and !Richmond, part of the above Fleet, parted from the convoy, on 26th February, and- were captured on 29th, off Madeira, by the Penelope and Tnurnise French Frigates. Thti, sank the Magdalen, Jupiter, anti fix/mond, and, burnt the 'London and • liai'ulgar.. They also car tared the Little Jane; RIDLEY, from London lor . , the Cape Of Gtod Hope, and sent her for Mar tinigne, otr which island she was re-captured by his Majesty's Ship Hippomenes, and sent into Barba- - does. The itabert, of . Liverpool, it to taken and sent into Martinique. ' The:Papei called tha INDEPENDENT WHIG, Sind it etHIIC under the talons of the YtiOth tx, has got ta sort of scralching which it via boure unused Mr. 13 4.1t4Dert cornes tnrward in.a manly way dGCS livt wish to screen himself behind ail :mous proWctiorf; but when he wakes an attack., upon a political appoile.ol, boldly puts his to' his strictures. We atiticipate much sulobenieui •trorg th 4 47/4' side 0t trilS controversy. LONTIOn : lifinted 'by R. TIARK ts (of MarAlett.cou li t t tti itnc.l puigH.icit by .A. .t , c.it tprs 0 t ite *.,1.C/Ilivt:, 112, 1t1.11‘,. r , ~' ' i 7 tl4 k 4 .11